24 Bible Verses about Overtaken By Darkness

And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.

And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.

Therefore is justice far from us, neither doth righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.

When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Because I was not cut off before the darkness, Neither did he cover the thick darkness from my face.

But with an over-running flood he will make a full end of her place, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.

What I tell you in the darkness, speak ye in the light; and what ye hear in the ear, proclaim upon the house-tops.

Jesus therefore said unto them, Yet a little while is the light among you. Walk while ye have the light, that darkness overtake you not: and he that walketh in the darkness knoweth not whither he goeth.

because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,

for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

Yea, if a man live many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.

For, behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the peoples; but Jehovah will arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

Therefore it shall be night unto you, that ye shall have no vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.

To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

They grope in the dark without light; And he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

before the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

Or darkness, so that thou canst not see, And abundance of waters cover thee.

If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house.